From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dired-mark Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:34:39 +0100 Message-ID: <87y7chlaao.fsf@member.fsf.org> References: <200711290901.32536.andreas.roehler@online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196325318 3053 80.91.229.12 (29 Nov 2007 08:35:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:35:18 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 29 09:35:27 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ixeri-0004Nr-73 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:35:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IxerP-0000Gl-8M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:35:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ixer8-0000GY-IY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:34:47 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ixer5-0000GA-Tx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:34:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ixer5-0000G7-Kx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:34:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ixer5-0002MH-EQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:34:43 -0500 Original-Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ixer4-00061o-Fv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:34:42 -0500 Original-Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3165557933 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:34:42 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:34:42 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: rWIFYDOsXi/7hQZBAT5kJCQF/pW5R4ND/0JE110EyqcX 1196325281 Original-Received: from baldur (dslb-084-063-053-069.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.63.53.69]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AE742F51 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:34:41 -0500 (EST) Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <200711290901.32536.andreas.roehler@online.de> ("Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=F6hler=22's?= message of "Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:01:32 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:84285 Archived-At: Andreas R=F6hler writes: > dired-mark doku says:=20 > > If on a subdir headerline, mark all its files except `.' and `..'. > > In the current directory however `.' and `..' are marked too. This may > cause errors later on, a need to search and unmark them. > > What about a change, which would skip or block marking of `.' and `..' > in current directory. > > Any opinions? But what if you really intend to mark "." or ".."? To mark all files and directories in the current directory I use `% m' (`dired-mark-files-regexp') with the regexp ".*". This will omit "." and "..". Bye, Tassilo